Political Ecology, Political Science, Neoliberalism, and Solidarity

Critical Theory, Critical Race Theory, Definitions of Humanity, and Humanity

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jul/26/turkish-people-erdogan-democracy#comments

Constitutional Law, Middle East Studies, Human Rights, Turkey, and Constitutionalism

ABSTRACT This article offers a close reading of Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. It argues that in this text, Arendt consistently, even obsessively, evaluates the legal and mor... more abstractABSTRACT This article offers a close reading of Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. It argues that in this text, Arendt consistently, even obsessively, evaluates the legal and moral challenges posed by Eichmann’s trial through the relationship between exception and rule. The article contends that the analytical lens of the exception allows us to appreciate the perplexities that Eichmann in Jerusalem presents—some fifty years after the book’s publication—from a still uncommon perspective, and enables us to attend in new ways to Arendt’s own suppositions, propositions, and contradictions in this text. KEYWORDS Arendt, Exception, Law, Conscience, Crimes Against Humanity, Paradigms of Justice

Critical Theory, Jurisprudence, Philosophy, Political Theory, Human Rights Law, and 11 more

More Info: doi: 10.1177/1743872115588442

Publication Name: Law, Culture and the Humanities (Online First, 28 May 2015)

Critical Theory, Middle East Studies, Human Rights, Modern Egypt, Military and Politics, and 2 more

Location: Republished by Jadaliyya at http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/13800/in-this-sublime-struggle-of-ours_after-egypt-on-tu

Publication Date: Aug 23, 2013

Publication Name: Al Jazeera English

Anthropology, Middle East Studies, Law and Society, Secularization, Egypt, and 1 more

Publication Date: Jul 23, 2013

Publication Name: Jadaliyya

Marxism, Human Rights Law, Human Rights, Critical Legal Theory, Colonialism, and 5 more

The first part of this article examines some of the legal, ethical, and political dimensions of the Responsibility to Protect doctrine by engaging with cosmopolitan proposals for its application to Libya before the in... more abstractThe first part of this article examines some of the legal, ethical, and political dimensions of the Responsibility to Protect doctrine by engaging with cosmopolitan proposals for its application to Libya before the international military action to enforce it was initiated in March 2011. It presents reflections of a historical kind on state sovereignty, international community, and the political theology of humanitarian intervention while assessing the nature of the moral imperative underpinning cosmopolitan assertions of responsibility to save lives in Libya. Considering the official recognition of the Transitional National Council by the enforcers of the Responsibility to Protect doctrine as the sole legitimate authority on Libyan territory, the second part of the article situates this act of recognition within a history of colonial practices that include the legal mechanism of “the protectorate.” It also discusses the prominence of imperial affects in the Responsibility to Protect doctrine. The third part of the article evaluates disagreements among certain anti-imperialist commentators over the desirability of a military intervention in Libya in order to reflect on the politics of transnational solidarity from an angle that may present itself as an alternative to the Responsibility to Protect framework. While calling for a renewed critique of violence, the article concludes with an examination of telling difficulties that afflict attempts to differentiate acts of “foreign intervention” from acts of “transnational solidarity.”

Social Movements, International Studies, Human Rights Law, Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and 10 more

More Info: Special Issue on Humanitarianism and Responsibility

Publication Date: Mar 4, 2013

Publication Name: Journal of Human Rights, Volume 12, Issue 1, pp. 40-58.

International Relations, Political Theory, Nationalism, World History, Colonialism, and 5 more

Within the tradition of ‘civil society tribunals’, the World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI) was an unprecedented endeavour in global scale, scope, structure and sophistication. Embedded within the global antiwar movement from... more abstractWithin the tradition of ‘civil society tribunals’, the World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI) was an unprecedented endeavour in global scale, scope, structure and sophistication. Embedded within the global antiwar movement from 2003 to 2005, the WTI's praxis is provocative on several counts. While addressing the entanglement of cosmopolitan human rights ideals with imperial politics, this essay reflects on competing grammars of justice and legitimacy imagined by WTI activists in response to the occupation of Iraq. It also critiques what I call the instrumentalization thesis of human rights. Promulgators of this thesis typically posit that agents pursuing a distinctly imperial project are insincerely mobilizing cosmopolitan human rights ideals. Further, in order to enquire into cosmopolitan politics occasioned by the war in Iraq, and to magnify its tensions, the essay focuses on particular dilemmas faced by WTI activists while mobilizing several theorists and jurists of (cosmopolitan) democracy and (global) justice in this action. In particular, the essay interprets the ultimate controversy within the WTI network occasioned by Amnesty International's 2005 campaign for a ‘human rights based constitution in Iraq’, as well as disagreements on the ‘sources’ of the WTI's own legitimacy at its founding meeting. These debates and disagreements, the essay argues, evidence cosmopolitical tensions between the human and the citizen, between universal principles and constituted autonomies of decision, between universal and national paradigms of justice. Among the questions the essay raises are the following. How can one distinguish the cosmopolitan ethos of concern and responsibility predicating the legitimacy of the WTI, from the cosmopolitan ethos which conferred legitimacy, ex ante or ex post facto, to the constitution of a liberated, ‘democratic’ Iraq? On the threshold between the legal and the legitimate, the rule and the exception, what is the foundation, if any, of human rights politics?

Solidarity: Call for Specificity Speaker: Professor Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, University Professor, Columbia University Chair: Dr Ayça Çubukçu, Assistant Professor in Human Rights, London School of Economics and P... more abstractSolidarity: Call for Specificity Speaker: Professor Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, University Professor, Columbia University Chair: Dr Ayça Çubukçu, Assistant Professor in Human Rights, London School of Economics and Political Science Date: Friday 20 May 2016, 6.30 p.m. - 8.00 p.m. Venue: Old Theatre, Ground floor, Old Building Professor Spivak’s lecture, “Solidarity: Call For Specificity” will examine the relationship between solidarity, complicity, globality and development in the context of “primitive accumulation.” While reflecting on race, class and gender as well as identitarianism, in her lecture, Professor Spivak will intervene into debates about nationalism and post-nationalism, humanism and post-humanism. This event is organized by the Internationalism, Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Solidarity (ICPS) Research Group led by Dr Ayça Çubukçu and is co-sponsored by the Centre for the Study of Human Rights, Department of International Relations, Department of Government, Department of Law, Department of Anthropology and the Chair in Contemporary Turkish Studies at London School of Economics and Political Science.

Humanities, Feminist Theory, Postcolonial Studies, Posthumanism, Nationalism, and 2 more

International Relations, Human Rights, Anti-Racism, and Anti-imperialism

Human Rights, Race and Ethnicity, Colonialism, Hannah Arendt, Humanity, and 1 more